SEBASTIAN — A 32-year-old man was arrested after police said he defecated in the back of a patrol car and smeared the waste on a back window and partition, police said.
Christopher T. Farless, of the 800 block of Dempsey Avenue, Sebastian, was charged with four counts of corruption by threat, bribery and criminal mischief. He is being held at the Indian River County Jail on $26,000 bail.
Officers responded about 6:30 a.m. Monday to a call of shots fired at Farless’ home, the report said.
When officers arrived at the scene, a man walked out of the home wearing only boxer shorts and laid down in the driveway with his arms spread apart, police said.
The man, later identified as Farless, told officers his mother was in her bedroom with a gun to her head and was going to kill herself. Police put Farless in the back of the patrol car without handcuffing him and went inside the home to check on the mother, police said.
Police said they found the mother sleeping in her bedroom and that she told them she doesn’t know why Farless said she was going to harm herself.
When officers went back outside to talk to Farless, they saw he had defecated in the patrol car and smeared feces all over the back window and the plastic partition with his hands, police said.
Farless told an officer he was going to “wipe his (expletive) all over him” if the officer let him out and threatened to hurt the officer’s family, police said.
Officers told Farless to go to the driveway and lie down with his hands behind his back, and he complied.
The officers then cleaned all the waste off of Farless, cleaned the waste in the patrol car and took Farless to the Indian River Medical Center to be evaluated, police said.
Several hours later, Farless was released from the medical center and taken to the Indian River County Jail.
He offered an officer $5,000 to let him go and take him home, but the officer refused and turned him over to the jail booking department.